Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and most of those present rose to their feet and applauded as the lawmakers were escorted out.

The poster Israeli-Arab lawmakers pulled out during Pence Knesset speechHaaretz

The lawmakers were holding up a poster proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Palestine.

On Sunday, Ayman Odeh, the head of the Joint List, Israel's Arab coalition party, called Pence "a dangerous man with a messianic vision that includes the destruction of the entire region."

After Tuesday's protest, Odeh said the act was "a strong and legitimate protest against the Trump-Netanyahu regime, against an extreme right that glorifies racism and hate and speaks of peace as lip-service but does anything in its power to further push away peace. Our protest today at the Knesset was done in the name of all citizens opposing the occupation and dreaming of peace."

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